Re: [PATCH] stm class: fix device leak in open error path

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 13:34:09 EST


On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:44:54AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() also on
> allocation errors in open().
>
> Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for...")
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> index 51f81d64ca37..47811f5c9bc9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> @@ -368,8 +368,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> stmf = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmf), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!stmf)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + if (!stmf) {
> + err = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_put_device;
> + }
>
> stm_output_init(&stmf->output);
> stmf->stm = to_stm_device(dev);
> @@ -382,9 +384,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
>
> err_free:
> + kfree(stmf);
> +err_put_device:
> /* matches class_find_device() above */
> put_device(dev);
> - kfree(stmf);
>
> return err;
> }

Any comments to this one, Alexander?

Thanks,
Johan